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Participants in the second Million Youth March for minority youths listen to speeches Saturday, Sept. 4, 1999, at the rally in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. Some 20 years later, minorities 18 and younger are to outnumber whites. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

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Census: Minority youth over take whites in 2020, 50% under 18

Paul Bedard · January 8, 2017 7:43 pm

Township north of Cincinnati would be the first in Ohio to enact the anti-union measure. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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States with right-to-work laws and no income taxes grew fastest in the Obama years

Michael Barone · January 7, 2017 1:03 am

The U.S. population growth rate has hit an 80-year low, and is expected to drop further. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

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Baby Bust: U.S. population growth crashes to 80-year low

Paul Bedard · December 27, 2016 2:33 pm

September's job creation fell just short of expectations. Economists in the private sector had expected payroll job growth to rise to 168,000. (Sam VarnHagen/Ford Motor Co. via AP)

Job creation falls just short of expectations in September at 156,000, unemployment at 5 percent

Joseph Lawler · October 7, 2016 12:32 pm

U.S. insured rate at historic high

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 13, 2016 3:42 pm

The homeownership rate fell from 63.5 percent in the first quarter to 62.9 percent in the second, tied for the lowest level since early 1965, when records were first kept. (AP Photo)

Homeownership rate falls to lowest on record

Joseph Lawler · July 28, 2016 3:24 pm

Census: Post-millennials nearly majority-minority

Census: Post-millennials nearly majority-minority

Joseph Lawler · June 23, 2016 4:01 am

Census: Illegal immigration up 57% to 550,000, one new Albuquerque A YEAR

Paul Bedard · June 1, 2016 9:00 am

The booming shale oil industry in North Dakota was a major reason for the tens of thousands who moved there. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)

With oil up, coal down, folks flock to N.D., leave W.V.

Anna Giaritelli · March 25, 2016 1:31 am

Record 61 million immigrants in U.S., 15.7 million illegally

Record 61 million immigrants in U.S., 15.7 million illegally

Paul Bedard · March 7, 2016 11:37 am

A crowded nation will get more so due to immigration. AP Photo

2050: Immigration will be 82% of U.S. population growth, not babies

Paul Bedard · January 18, 2016 4:34 pm

Census 2015 population estimates show increasing cultural division and political polarization

Michael Barone · January 11, 2016 5:01 am